[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24013: Hide "Add Media" for some post formats

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#24013: Hide "Add Media" for some post formats
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 Reporter:  markjaquith                        |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  task (blessed)                     |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  high                               |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Post Formats                       |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch ui-feedback 2nd-opinion  |
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Comment (by jb510):

 Replying to [comment:34 knutsp]:
 > A good UI focuses on the task. The task the image post format is there
 to guide is posting an image, with an optional description or comment, and
 make the post look like an image post. An extra add image button for the
 description field is just confusing. The point of post formats in general,
 other than the standard format, is to reduce freedom, and guide the author
 in doing so.

 It's not an image button.  It's an '''Add Media''' button and it has MANY
 uses.  What if I want to add a smiley to my status but the way I'm
 accustomed to inserting it is with the Add Media button to add it from my
 media library?  Users USE the button for ALL sorts of things.

 However, you bring up a great point which is how are users supposed to
 deduce that that big text area is for "an optional description or
 comment"?  This has been my issue elsewhere, as it was entirely NON-
 obvious what each field does in each case.  It's gotten much better, for
 example "Link" has become "Image click-through link", "Quote souce link",
 etc, but the_content box is still undefined.  If the content SAID it was
 for a description users would know what to put in there and know that
 wasn't where the primary image was supposed to go.

 > Wanting to add an extra image upload button is like going "Yo dawg, I
 heard you like uploading images so I put an image uploader to your image
 uploader so you can upload an image while you upload an image".

 By that we should then discuss eliminating many of the TinyMCE buttons as
 well as there is no reason have blockquote in a quote, or a link in a
 link.   Perhaps we should just do away with the visual editor on post
 formats and make it a standard multi-line text area?

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